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New Yearās Eve celebrations in Bangalore were marred by another ugly series ofĀ mass molestations, making them the third such incident to happen in India. As women walked in…
āWhere did you go?ā demanded my grandmother sternly. I looked up from the act of untying my shoelaces, surprised at the tone of her voice. I shrugged nonchalantly,…
Last week we looked at a sampling of erotic verse in time for Valentineās Day, but this week weāll look at novels. In particular, weāll look at novels…
It seems especially fitting that Iām working on this column even as I am surrounded by the rampant commercialism of Valentineās Day, a day that supposedly honours and…
Itās impossible to deny that human beings like sex, and spend an inordinate amount of time consumed with thoughts of it. Sex may have started off as an…
Salman Rushdie once said, āWhat is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.ā Of course, Rushdie would know all about that; he wrote…
My cat Grimalkin came to live with me in 2005 as a tiny little long-haired ginger kitten who could fit onto my palm. I immediately became obsessed with…
Nobody who knows me will be surprised that the subject of my first author review for this column is none other than Khushwant Singh. I have professed a…
Itās that time of the year again; the Silly Season is upon us, and a lot of us are probably looking to buy a gift or two for…
Yesterday, Dec. 5, Jayalalithaa Jayaraman,Ā chief ministerĀ of the state of Tamil Nadu, India, and one of the earliest feminist influences in my life, passed away. She was an iconic…